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Up to half off on your entire purchase--eBook, pBook, or MEAP. For purchases Under $50 Over $50 Over $100 Discount 37% 42% 50% Coupon Code wmld37cc wmld42cc wmld50cc Offer applies to your entire purchase and expires May 15. Only at manning.com. Manning authors know their stuff because they're plugged into their communities--blogging, speaking, and, of course, coding. Our job is to take all the experience earned by our busy authors and turn it into books that will save you time. Here's a glimpse at the recent activities of three Manning authors, along with an opportunity to add some great books to your collection at a great discount. Can't get enough practical data science? Nina Zumel, coauthor of Practical Data Science with R, blogs on data science topics ranging from marketing algorithms to NASA's recent discovery of 715 new planets. Check out these new posts on ninazumel.com and win-vector.com. What is Verification by Multiplicity? » Learn about the statistical technique that NASA scientists used to winnow out so many planets from the bulk data. Popularity and Social Networks: Life is still like high school » Why does it matter how many people follow your blog? Bandit Formulations for A/B Testing » How big a population do you need to reliably detect a difference to the desired statistical significance? You may also be interested in R in Action, Second Edition  Storm Applied  Elasticsearch in Action  Solr in Action  Giraph in Action  Big Data  Real-World Machine Learning  PostGIS in Action, Second Edition  Going Reactive with Scala and Akka Roland Kuhn co- author of Reactive Design Patterns, is taking the Reactive Application message on the road. Roland's just finished talks at JFokus in Stockholm and, along with coauthor Jamie Allen, at PhillyETE in Philadelphia. Next, he's off to BigTechDay, München, 33degree, Krakow, and ScalaDays, Berlin. You can catch his recent webinar "Introducing Reactive Streams" on YouTube. You may also be interested in Akka in Action  Functional Programming in Scala  Scala in Action  Scala in Depth  SBT in Action  RabbitMQ in Action  The Joy of Clojure  Elixir in Action  Way to go, Carter Sande! Carter Sande, coauthor of Hello World! Computer programming for kids and other beginners, just took second place in the Alameda County Apps Challenge "hackathon" for his app "isthisbizgreen." (That's Carter's fresh face in the picture.) He also managed to score a student scholarship to Apple's WWDC. Last, but not least, Hello World! was recently voted a winner in the 2014 Practical Homeschooling Reader Awards. Looks to us like Carter is just getting started! You may also be interested in Hello App Inventor! Android programming for kids and the rest of us  The Quick Python Book  Hello! Python  Hello! HTML5 and CSS3    ...and everyone's busy updating MEAPs Storm Applied » Author Sean T. Allen has just posted Chapter 5, "Tuning in Storm." Oculus Rift in Action » Recent additions by Bradley Austin Davis include Chapter 12, "Using Unity Pro to Create Rift Applications" and updates to chapters 1-4. D3 in Action » Chapter 5, "Layouts" is now available, fresh from the desk of Elijah Meeks. Elixir in Action » Sasa Juric finished Chapter 6, "Actors," to be followed soon by Chapter 7, "Fault-tolerance" Node.js in Practice » read Chapter 10, "The Web: Build leaner and meaner web applications" and Chapter 11, "Debugging: Designing for introspection and resolving issues" courtesy of authors Mark Harter and Alex Young. BESTSELLERS Week Ending May 8, 2014 MEAP Git in Practice  Java 8 in Action: Lambdas, Streams, and functional-style programming  Go in Action  Functional Programming in Scala  Chef in Action  AngularJS in Action  JavaScript Application Design  Software Development Metrics  Getting MEAN  Big Data  pBook Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja Node.js in Action  Hello World, Second Edition  Single Page Web Applications grainger PowerShell in Depth OCA Java SE 7 Programmer I Certification Guide Learn PowerShell Toolmaking in a Month of Lunches The Art of Unit Testing  The MEAP guarantee Technology publishing is an unpredictable activity. Despite our best intentions, not all MEAPs end up as finished books. You have our guarantee that if we cancel a MEAP for any reason, you can exchange it for another Manning book or get a full refund.